Playstation 4’s Launch issues, What Story Does the Consumer Really Believe?

In case you were living under a rock and missed it, last Friday marked the launch of the 4th generation of Sony’s Playstation Video Game System, and boy, did the Internet world light up over it.

Stories, over the weekend were coming in fast and furious, as users complained about their units showing up DOA, getting the “Blue Light of Death”, Display issues and a collection of other problems.

Part of the blame has been aimed at Amazon, with the user base pointing out poor packaging and delivery breaking units in transit.  Others are pointing the Blame at Sony, citing a half baked Operating system that requires a 300 MB patch to be downloaded on Day 1 and still will see the PS 4 not having everything the PS3 did available to customers.

Perhaps the most interesting part of this, and something that has become a concern for Xbox One users awaiting their launch this Friday, is reports from IGN stating that a worker with Foxxcon (the company contracted to assemble almost every piece of technology out there from Apple, Sony, Microsoft and others) has laid claim that the assembly line this person was assigned to actually sabotaged The Playstation 4, citing the following quote

“The ps4 console we assemble can be turned on at best.”

The original post has been locked by IGN, but many sites have picked up on this story, including Neowin.net

Sony’s stance on it is that with any counsel release there is an expected number of failures and that the reports, a rough estimate would put it at 3,600 units of 90,000 units pre-ordered, is within acceptable operating standards.

The Question for Users world wide, is what is the truth of the Matter, has the launch of the PS4 been used as a tool to protest unfair work conditions, Did Sony rush the unit to Market to meet the Pre Black-Friday sales window, is the Playstation 4 really a Lemon, or is this really just a case of standard failure rate? Feel free to leave your comments below.